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Emotion Reversed In Left-Handers' Brains Holds New Implications For Treatment Of Anxiety And DepressionNew York NY (SPX) May 08, 2012 The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE by psychologists Geoffrey Brookshire and Daniel Casasanto of The New School for Social Research in New York. Motivation, the drive to approach or withdraw from physical and social stimuli, is a basic building block of human emotion. For decades, scientists have believed that approach motivation is computed mainly in the left hemisphere of the brain, and withdraw motiva ... read more |
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  Dry heat increases bark beetle bite Climate change appears to be good news for destructive bark beetles, according to a new study by Lorenzo Marini from the University of Padova in Italy, and his team. Their work, published online in ... more | .. |
  GeoEye Proposes Acquisition Of DigitalGlobe GeoEye, Inc. said Friday that it is proposing to acquire DigitalGlobe, Inc. The combined company would create the world's largest fleet of high resolution commercial imagery satellites. The new comp ... more | .. |
  After epic debate, avian flu research sees light of day After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedented recommendation by a government review panel to ... more | .. |
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  Unique insight into Chile's coastal ecosystem before and after 2010 earthquake Natural disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis are expected to have substantial ecological effects, but if researchers don't have enough data about the environment before the disaster strikes, as i ... more | .. |
  New coelacanth find rewrites history of the ancient fish Coelacanths, an ancient group of fishes once thought to be long extinct, made headlines in 1938 when one of their modern relatives was caught off the coast of South Africa. Now coelacanths are makin ... more | .. |
  NASA Langley Aircraft Joins Operation IceBridge A NASA research airplane has taken wing for Greenland, where it is joining an extensive airborne survey of Earth's polar ice. NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., deployed its newly acquire ... more | .. |
 The zombie-ant fungus is under attack A parasite that fights the zombie-ant fungus has yielded some of its secrets to an international research team led by David Hughes of Penn State University. The research reveals, for the first ... more |
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Anthropic touts improved Claude AI models
EU parliament backs carbon border tax exemption
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  Agroforestry is not rocket science but it might save DPR Korea There is more going on in DPR Korea than rocket science: local people in collaboration with natural resources scientists are taking control of their food supply through agroforestry. This is accordi ... more | .. |
  Modern hybrid corn makes better use of nitrogen Today's hybrid corn varieties more efficiently use nitrogen to create more grain, according to 72 years of public-sector research data reviewed by Purdue University researchers. Tony Vyn, a professo ... more | .. |
 Global Prices of Pollination-dependent Products such as Coffee and Cocoa Could Continue to Rise in the Long Term In recent years the economic value of pollination-dependent crops has substantially increased around the world. As a team of researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), t ... more | .. |
 British cuckoos tracked on migrations Researchers say they have successfully tracked cuckoos fitted with tracking tags on their annual migration from Britain to Africa and back. ... more |
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  ADB urges action on climate change The Asian Development Bank urged countries in the Asia-Pacific region to take immediate action to reduce the negative impact of climate change. ... more | .. |
 Flash floods kill 26 at Afghan wedding: official At least 26 people were killed and more than 100 missing after flash floods hit a wedding party and three villages in northern Afghanistan, an official said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Centre-left heads for victory in Italian local elections Italy's centre-left was headed for victory in local elections on Monday, reflecting widespread anger over austerity driving Italians to join other crisis-hit eurozone countries to reject the status quo. ... more | .. |
 Gassy dinos may have warmed the Earth: study Giant dinosaurs that roamed the Earth millions of years ago may have warmed the planet with the gas they produced from eating leafy plants, British scientists said on Monday. ... more |
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Israel military says intercepted missile fired from Yemen
Top U.S. defense contractor L3 Tech to pay $62M to settle claims of deceptive practices
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  Thousands without power after Japan tornadoes More than 3,000 homes were without electricity Monday, a day after apparent tornadoes tore through eastern Japan, killing one person and injuring at least 46 more. ... more | .. |
 Africa's last rhinos threatened by poaching Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching. ... more | .. |
 Voyage to the 'front line' of global warming When Cameron Dueck set sail to the Canadian Arctic to witness what he calls "the front line of climate change", he did so knowing he would have to brave seas that have killed scores of sailors and reduced men to cannibals. ... more | .. |
 Fundraising blitz in South Africa to save the rhino The battle against rhino poaching is at a fever pitch in South Africa, the country hardest hit by the scourge, spawning scores of fundraising campaigns running from glamorous to gory. ... more |
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  Chinese activist could find life in US tough: exiles Blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng will escape Chinese persecution if he leaves for the United States, but will find life tough, and may struggle to make an impact abroad, current exiles said. ... more | .. |
 Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forest champs Big trees three or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park site, yet represented only one percent of the trees growing there. This mean ... more | .. |
 Ecosystem Effects of Biodiversity Loss Rival Climate Change and Pollution Loss of biodiversity appears to affect ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to results of a new study by an international research ... more | .. |
 Bigger gorillas better at attracting mates and raising young Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in the rainforests of Congo seem to be ... more |
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SpaceX mega-rocket Starship 9 cleared for launch following earlier mission failures
Do photons wear out? An astrophysicist explains light's ability to travel vast cosmic distances without losing energy
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  Experts write on the risks of low-level radiation Each time a release of radioactivity occurs, questions arise and debates unfold on the health risks at low doses-and still, just over a year after the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station ... more | .. |
 Selenium impacts honey bee behavior and survival Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have a "proof of concept" that selenium, a nonmetal chemical element, can disrupt the foraging behavior and survival of honey bees. Sel ... more | .. |
  Pacific islands may become refuge for corals in a warming climate Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study shows that climate change co ... more | .. |
 Global Warming Refuge Discovered Near At-Risk Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati Scientists predict ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study shows that climate change could cause oc ... more |
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 Keep your fruit close and your vegetables closer College students wishing to eat healthier may want to invest in a clear fruit bowl says a recent article published in Environment and Behavior (published by SAGE). The new study found that when frui ... more | .. |
 Hope fades for Nepal flood victims, toll may hit 60 Rescuers scouring Nepal's central Annapurna region after severe flash flooding said Sunday that there was almost no hope of finding survivors and that the final death toll could be more than 60. ... more | .. |
 Darwinian selection continues to influence human evolution New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world. Despite advancements in medicine and t ... more | .. |
 Tornado kills teenager in Japan A tornado ripped through eastern Japan on Sunday, killing a teenager, destroying dozens of homes and cutting power to around 20,000 households. ... more |
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